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Using Tridion Sites

Within Tridion Sites, Content Manager provides the essential functionality for creating, managing, and organizing web content easily and efficiently. This section provides information on using the different Content Manager user interfaces within the framework of basic content management concepts and tasks.

Tridion Sites provides the following three independent but complimentary graphical user interfaces to support the needs of a variety of content management users:
Experience Space
Experience Space is the recommended user interface for everyday authoring and editing. Experience Space makes it easy to explore, manage, and publish content, multimedia, and pages across many sites and channels.
Classic user interface
The "Classic" user interface actually includes both of the following browser-based clients:
Content Manager Explorer
A form-based user interface, Content Manager Explorer provides broad functionality for creating, editing and managing content. Advanced Content Manager Explorer features support the special needs of system administrators, developers and IT.
Experience Manager
Experience Manager provides a WYSIWYG authoring environment in which users can modify content directly on the webpage and within the context of the website (a staging or preview environment).

The three user interfaceExperience Managers can be used alongside one another. While Experience Space is superior to the Classic user interface in a number of ways, some advanced features may not be available yet. For these features, you can easily switch to the Classic user interface.

Regardless of which UI you are using, it is always possible for multiple authors, editors and designers to contribute, thereby allowing you to collaborate and align your content objectives. You can maintain web content throughout its entire life cycle: from adding new content to publishing the content to your website. All versions of content are saved, thereby allowing you to view and track changes.